This article originally appeared on Sabin Vaccine Institute’s website on Wednesday, August 29, 2018. MINSK, BELARUS – Beginning today, the 13th International Rotavirus Symposium, hosted by the Sabin Vaccine Institute, the U.S. Centers for Diseases Control,...

Dear Colleagues, Next week is the International Rotavirus Symposium in Minsk, Belarus. There will be much to digest and discuss. Since the 2016 Symposium in Australia, dozens of new publications and reviews have described how rotavirus vaccines are saving lives and...

A major new study has shown that rotavirus vaccination reduced infant diarrhea deaths by one-third in rural Malawi, a region with high levels of child deaths. The study led by scientists at the University of Liverpool, University College London, Johns Hopkins...

This article originally appeared in News Hour on August 4, 2018. Rotavirus is one of the several viruses known to cause a self-limited gastroenteritis, better known as diarrhea. Fluid stool losses may be dramatic, and death from dehydration is not uncommon,...